Word: alerting
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...University of St. Andrews, Scotland, writing in Nature last week, have concluded that monkeys do indeed use simple verbal communication. They observed male putty-nosed monkeys in Nigeria's Gashaka Gumti National Park and found the primates produced a series of calls containing two basic sounds to alert others to predators. "These calls were not produced randomly, and a number of distinct patterns emerged," says Kate Arnold, one of the researchers. "Pyow" warned that a leopard was loitering nearby, while "hack" indicated an eagle was hovering overhead. A series of the two sounds - the "pyow-hack" sequence - served...
...month, Tasayco and Corporal Nathan Buck take their squad out to commandeer a small shopping complex, which will give cover for the rest of the platoon to push east. On the roof, Buck, his helmet emblazoned with the words DEATH DEALERS in thick letters, warns his Marines to stay alert. When Tasayco sees movement in a nearby window, Buck rises to check it out. An insurgent sniper fires at his head, cracking a round into the lip of the cement wall in front of him. "I should be dead right now," Buck says to Tasayco with a laugh...
...case where detectives have ruled out foul play. Jane Park, 23, who won a Fulbright scholarship after graduating from Wellesley College in 2004 and took classes at the Extension School this past fall, was last seen in Harvard Square on May 5, according to a missing-adult alert released by the Somerville Police Department. Park was first reported missing after her roommate had not seen or heard from Park in five days, said Christine Y. Teng ’04, a staff member for the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship who has been helping Park’s family throughout...
...some, the agency will bring in local police to conduct face-to-face interviews and perhaps run the person's name against national criminal databases and determine whether any threat exists. If such inquiries turn up other issues countries with terrorist connections, police officers can pursue the questioning or alert Federal counterterrorism agents. And of course the full retinue of baggage x-rays, magnetometers and other checks for weapons will continue...
...coming in from Keene, N.H., a 30-minute drive from my high school in Brattleboro, Vt. (This, of course, is assuming the bus drivers are willing to risk their lives to come at all.) Furthermore, the NRC’s own investigation of Vermont Yankee found that the alert system was inadequate in areas outside of normal siren coverage. Hurricane Katrina showcased the deadliness of a botched evacuation, yet the NRC does not appear to have learned from the mistakes in New Orleans...